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The Artful Dodger
ENCOURAGEMENT Following a conversation late last year with Granddaughter #2 about her love of art and plans for the future, I was a little surprised at her reticence to show off her work online the way so many young people do, especially since she planned on a career involving art. She is reasonably confident in the art she produces and receives praise all the time from her family and teachers, so the reaction made little sense to me at the time. We talked about the need for her to build an art portfolio to secure her desired place in further education and eventually employment, but still she was shying away from showing off her work. So I said I would set up a social media account dedicated to showing the world my “art” if she would post…
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The Great Blogger Abduction
To criminally paraphrase the Bonnie Tyler song: where have all the bloggers gone and where are all the blogs? A scant couple of years ago I spent a ridiculous amount of time (thanks to my then newly acquired retired person status) scouting for personal blogs I could read, relate to, and be inspired by when writers block dropped in unannounced. I was a little discouraged at the time because it required a focused search – largely because I wanted to stay away from the “influencer’ type bullshit blogs that have swamped the web over the past few years – and was relieved when I could find some interesting sites written by a wide variety of people. In an effort to get back to keeping something akin to a regular posting regime for this blog I went back…
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MEN AT WORK…
In an effort to work out why I bother writing this blog (yes I am struggling a bit with the apparent futility of writing a blog for my own amusement) I decided to do an in-depth piece of research of existing blogs written by men. When I finally finished Googling for “male blogs” and “men who write blogs” and “blogs for men” I began to wonder if I was the only one interested in blogging for the sake of it rather than sponsorship. Most blogs written by men relate to single subjects such as sex, gadgets, sport, sex, making money, sex and fashion. In fact, fashion blogs written for men by men are by far the most prevalent. Everything from high fashion to off-the-peg suits are covered and sometimes in a very creative way (yawn!). Maybe it…
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AND THEN THERE WAS……….BLOG?
Okay not the snappiest title anyone has ever given to an opening blog, but I was trying to give the impression that this was an event of biblical proportions. I realise all things are subjective and maybe I’m a little biased, but I have a feeling this journey we’re about to embark upon will have the right mixture of fun and adventure. Now, best foot forward…
